Learning SD-WAN with Cisco: Transform Your Existing WAN Into a Cost-effective Network

© Stuart Fordham 2021

S. FordhamLearning SD-WAN with Cisco https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7347-0_7

7. Edge Devices

Stuart Fordham¹  

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Bedfordshire, UK

 

In this chapter, we will set up two vEdge devices and one cEdge device. vEdge means that it is a Viptela device, and cEdge means that it is a Cisco device (a CSR1000v in this instance). Although they are technically now the same company, vEdge and cEdge are still used to distinguish between the two different router types and the OS that they run.

We begin with the vEdge router, in our HQ, in the same way as the other devices we have previously configured, by changing the password:

vedge login: admin

Password:

Welcome to Viptela CLI

admin connected from 127.0.0.1 using console on vedge

You must set ...